"These few must be the guards around His Highness, right?"
After looking at Shen Yu and others for a few times, Zhu Hai asked.
Zhao Hongrun heard the sound of the string and knew its elegant meaning. He quickly pointed to Zongwei Shen Yu and introduced him: "This person is called Shen Yu, and he is the Zongwei chief next to Xiao Wang."
After hearing this, Shen Yu quickly came out of the queue, clasped his fists and worshiped respectfully: "Shen Yu has seen the general."
However, Zhu Hai waved his hand and said with a smile: "You and I are both Zongwei from the Zongfu. Just call me Senior."
It has to be said that the existence of the Zongwei system not only allowed the prince and the Zongwei to form a brotherly relationship, but also, under normal circumstances, the senior Zongwei would take care of their juniors. For example, Bailiba once So Shen Yu and others were thrown into his dredging army, allowing Shen Yu and others to gain rare battlefield experience and leading experience on the battlefield.
This kind of support is a great honor. If Bailiba hadn't considered that both of them were from Zongwei, even the sons of aristocratic families would not have been able to have Bailiba take such good care of him.
"Chief Zong Wei..." Zhu Hai looked at Shen Yu up and down, and inevitably thought of their Zong Wei Chief Li Zheng back then, and also thought of them back then.
"Okay, okay." As Zong Wei's senior, Zhu Hai greeted kindly.
"This is Lu Mu..."
"Well, he looks pretty stable and reliable, haha..."
"This is Wei Jiao..."
One after another, Zhao Hongrun introduced the ten sect guards behind him to General Zhu Hai, and the latter all nodded and smiled in kind.
Afterwards, Zhao Hongrun introduced to Zhu Hai Qiu Yu, the imperial censor's supplementary officer, and Wu Ji, the general in charge of the Shang Shui Army.
"This is the military supervisor sent by my father to the army, Censor Qiu Yuqiu."
"Oh?" Zhu Hai showed a little surprise when he heard this, and said unexpectedly: "Zhu has heard that the Yushijian is a new department established by His Majesty last year. I heard that its powers are transcendent. I didn't expect Mr. Qiu to be appointed at such a young age. Already working in the Yushi Prison..."
"General, I've been rewarded. I'm still just a supplementary officer." Qiu Yu thanked him humbly.
"This is the general in charge of the Shang Shui Army under the control of Xiao Wang, Wu Ji."
"General in charge of troops? This is a unique official position..." Zhu Hai looked at Wu Ji up and down with some confusion, as if he didn't understand the meaning of "general in charge of troops".
Seeing this, Wu Ji respectfully explained: "General Zhu, our Shangshui Army always regards His Highness King Su as the commander-in-chief of our army, so there is no commander-in-chief title."
When Zhu Hai heard this, he felt relieved: The so-called "general in charge of the army", to put it bluntly, is a general who does not have the title of commander, but is responsible for the affairs of the commander. Apart from the title, there is no difference from the commander of an army.
"You're not even as strong as a weak champion, are you? You are already the leader of an army..." Zhu Hai looked at Wu Ji with wide eyes.
Upon hearing this, Wu Ji blushed quite a bit and quickly explained: "The general has misunderstood. The 'commander of an army' will never be able to reach the end of the army. There are also Gu Liang (Wei) and Wuma (Jiao)." There are two generals. It’s just that one of the two generals is currently guarding Shangshui, and the other is temporarily guarding Yanling on behalf of the Yanling army. Therefore, it is the incompetent general who has the honor to lead the army."
"Isn't this guy too humble?"
Zhu Hai looked at Wu Ji in surprise. He would not take the latter's words seriously. After all, this young general named Wu Ji made him feel an inexplicable potential.
While everyone was chatting happily, two generals, General Sima An, Bai Fangming and Wen Xu, came up from behind on war horses.
I saw Sima An riding his horse to Zhu Hai's side. He did not dismount, but looked at Zhu Hai expressionlessly. Zhu Hai did not pay attention to Sima An, but still laughed with Zhao Hongrun and others, and held Zhao Hongrun's hand.
Enthusiastically prepared to welcome it to the door.
As for Sima An, it seems that Zhu Hai has no intention of inviting him in for a drink.
This situation feels weird no matter how you look at it.
"Don't General Zhu Hai recognize General Sima An?"
Zhao Hongrun felt a little incredible.
You know, Zhu Hai and Sima An were both Zongwei around Emperor Wei at the beginning, how could they not know each other?
But judging from the current situation, it seems that each of them treats the other as nothing and turns a blind eye.
Seeing that Zhu Hai seemed to be leaving Sima An here to dry, and leading his group into the prison to drink, Zhao Hongrun couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart.
Sima An has already been offended. If the general is left out again, won't the relationship between the two worsen even more?
Thinking of this, Zhao Hongrun ignored the fact that Zhu Hai and Sima An had already recognized each other, and took the initiative to break the frozen atmosphere at the moment.
After all, we can't really leave the general Sima An alone here, right?
Thinking of this, Zhao Hongrun pretended not to know and introduced: "Uncle Zhu, this is General Sima An..."
According to what he thought, Zhu Hai had just made it clear that he was deliberately pretending not to see Sima An, but now that Zhao Hongrun deliberately mentioned it, Uncle Zhu couldn't pretend not to see it anymore, right?
As he expected, Zhu Hai had actually seen Sima An a long time ago, but he just pretended not to see it. But now that Zhao Hongrun deliberately mentioned it, he had to give Prince Su some face.
He glanced at Sima An, and the smile on his face had long been replaced by indifference, and he said lightly: "Hey, isn't this a human slaughter of Sima An... If you are so keen on killing, wouldn't it be better to become a butcher instead?
"
"..."
Zhao Hongrun glanced at Zhu Hai in shock.
Of course he understood. This was Zhu Hai mocking Sima An for killing without batting an eye and slaughtering countless people. But was it really okay to be so sarcastic in front of Sima An?
Zhao Hongrun secretly glanced at Sima An, only to find that the general was still expressionless and did not seem to be angry.
As the saying goes, a slap can't make a difference. Just when Zhao Hongrun thought that Sima An was open-minded and ignored this taunt, he saw Sima An calmly said: "Will you switch to slaughtering dolphins? I am not disgusted by this general."
The so-called "pig" refers to a pig. If nothing else, Sima An is insinuating that Zhu Hai is a pig. After all, "Zhu" and "pig" are homophonic.
"What did you say?" Zhu Hai's eyes suddenly narrowed when he heard this, and he sneered: "Under my Chenggao Pass, you are so brave, Sima Butcher!"
"Sima Tuzi? What is this?"
Zhao Hongrun suppressed laughter.
He didn't dare to laugh, after all, Sima An's complexion was almost blue.
I saw Sima An's face becoming more and more gloomy, and he said coldly: "Old man, are you impatient with life?"
"Huh? What did you say, Sima Zaihu?" Zhu Hai deliberately pretended not to hear.
"..." Seeing this, Sima An narrowed his eyes and slowly stretched his right hand towards the sword on his waist.
At the same time, Zhu Hai also stretched out his hand to the side, indicating to his subordinates to hand him the weapon.
"Hey, hey, hey, these two generals are going to tear each other apart in public!"
Zhao Hongrun was shocked when he heard this. He really didn't expect that there would be such a contradiction between Zhu Hai and Sima An.
On the side, people like Shen Yu, Wu Ji, and Qiu Yu were already dumbfounded.
Seeing this, Zhao Hongrun quickly stood up and smoothed things over: "Two generals, it's getting late, let's talk in detail after entering the customs?" After saying that, he looked at Zhu Hai pleadingly.
Seeing Zhao Hongrun speak, Zhu Hai gave up and threw the weapons in his hands back to his subordinates. After glancing at Sima An again, he muttered with a dejected look on his face: "The carefully prepared wine and dishes are used to entertain a butcher. It’s really hard to accept.”
Sima An snorted coldly when he heard this: "Keep your pig food!"
Seeing that the two seemed to be about to fight again, Zhao Hongrun couldn't help but stand up again to smooth things over.
However, during this period, Zhao Hongrun unexpectedly discovered that whether it was the generals Wen Xu, Bai Fangming and other generals under Sima An, or the general Feng Su under Zhu Hai, they all seemed to be accustomed to the hostility between their own general and the other general. He had absolutely no intention of coming to help, and in fact, he didn't take the matter to heart at all.
This made Zhao Hongrun a little puzzled.
"Is it common knowledge that the two generals Zhu Hai and Sima An have grievances against each other?"
Zhao Hongrun was quite surprised, after all, he had never heard of such a thing.
Dinner at Chenggao Pass that night, I have to say that Zhu Hai indeed prepared a lot of delicacies to entertain Zhao Hongrun.
But what was awkward was that Sima An, who was eating together in the house, only had a plate of bacon, a plate of salted vegetables and a bowl of rice on the table in front of him, which was extremely shabby.
Later, Zhao Hongrun found out that the two dishes were prepared by the soldiers of the Dangshan Army for their general. Sima An, who had a strong self-esteem, was unwilling to accept the "food" given by Zhu Hai, and would rather have a simple meal.
As for Zhu Hai, he had no intention of persuading him at all. Instead, he kept persuading Zhao Hongrun to eat more meat and drink more wine during the meal. He also praised them from time to time for how delicious the game in Chenggaoguan was and how delicious the wine was. It's fragrant, and it's obvious that it was deliberately made to offend Sima An.
Thanks to these two generals, Zhao Hongrun was sweating profusely and suffering from stomachache after eating this meal.
After dinner, Zhao Hongrun quietly called General Feng Su and asked him about the matter in a low voice.
It wasn't until Feng Su explained it to him in a low voice that Zhao Hongrun finally understood why Zhu Hai and Sima An were both from Zongwei who were once close to Emperor Wei, but they disliked each other.
It's not that there is any hatred between the two, but there is a serious analysis of a certain point of view between the two, namely the issue of "attitudes towards foreigners".
Like Zhu Hai, he advocated "attacking and appeasing at the same time". For example, for the people of Sanchuan, this general advocated "attacking foreigners who are hostile to the Wei Dynasty, and recruiting and appeasing other foreigners who are closer to the Wei Dynasty." ’, because of this, Zhu Hai couldn’t get along with Sima An, who held the view that ‘anyone who is not from my race must have a different heart and will be slaughtered’.
"No wonder my father placed Sima An in Dangshan Mountain in the hinterland of the Wei Dynasty, and ordered the two generals Xu Yin and Zhu Hai to guard Fenxing Fortress and Chenggao Pass respectively... If it were changed, there would really be trouble."
Zhao Hongrun sighed in his heart.
When he thought that in the next few days, he would "march first" and set foot in the land of Sanchuan. At that time, he would face the people of Sanchuan who were all foreigners. Zhao Hongrun really couldn't imagine how Sima An and the Dangshan Army would treat them.
Those people of Sanchuan.
That night, Zhu Hai ordered his people to hand over the information he had collected about the people of Sanchuan and the map of this land to Zhao Hongrun.
As for whether the general sent the same information to Sima An, the question is obvious.
But having said that, this map is very detailed, clearly indicating the approximate range of activities of the three tribes of Yi, Jie and Yi, including the Jiejiao tribe.
It is not difficult to guess that Zhu Hai, who was guarding Chenggao Pass, actually sent many people to inquire about the situation of the people in Sanchuan.
"It's better to block than to open up... Why don't we take action on the Jiejiao tribe?"
Looking at the mark representing the Jiejiao tribe on the map, Zhao Hongrun thought to himself.